Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Wild West Thursday

  • Cover Artists in Transition

    This week on Wild West Thursday, I thought we’d take a look at how the current changes in the publishing world are affecting cover art and cover artists. We talk a lot about the effects upon writers and even upon publishers, but as writers, we have a lot in common with the other creative people…

  • Free and Its Fallout

    This week on Wild West Thursday, we’ll talk a bit about one of the sales mechanisms used to promote books in the digital marketplace – making a title free. The Principle The core idea is that the free book is what is called a “loss leader” by marketing people. This is similar to a free…

  • The Algorithm

    Last week on Wild West Thursday, we talked about the changes in the way we buy books, comparing the act of visiting a bricks-and-mortar bookstore to buy a printed book with that of shopping online for a digital (or print) book. I talked a bit about bestseller lists at online bookstores, and mentioned that their…

  • Buying Books – Then & Now

    Once upon a time, we bought printed books in bricks-and-mortar bookstores. We went to the store, maybe with a particular title in mind, found the book and bought it. If you’re at all like me, a trip to the bookstore also meant buying other books, maybe books that weren’t on the shopping list. This sounds…

  • Adventures in the New Wild West

    There are so many interesting (strange and unusual) things about indie publishing and digital self-publishing that I thought it would be fun to share some of them with you. Here’s this week’s quirk. The other day, I received a notice from Amazon that I needed to verify my rights to one of the backlist Delacroix…